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New and Old #122

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Addison Del Mastro
Aug 11, 2023
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Why YIMBY Righteousness Backfires, The Atlantic, Reihan Salam, July 15, 2023

Reihan Salam is a smart guy; he runs the conservative Manhattan Institute, which publishes the sometimes-urbanist City Journal. Folks on Twitter dragged this article—partly because he does this thing where he says YIMBYs are basically correct but can be annoying (which political…

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